A cup or
a heart, symbolizing unity through mutual affect, loves, the Holy Graal,
and Eucharistic communion of the 12 apostolic souls represents the unity
of the sensitive world. The suit of hearts represents human life from our
feelings point of view and its recurrent situations, through which hearts
are disciplined. If we observe this process through a relational angle,
using the 4 fundamental archetypes pattern, we'll see that it has as a
gravity confer a relationship with the Other Sex, represented by the Empress
in the major archanes and by the Lady of Hearts in the figured cards.

TWO OF
HEARTSseduction

Question
- How do you react when you're blatantly flirted at by a younger person?

There is
here a possibility of a relationship, the soul (anima) and sexuality (animus)
observe and try to know each other. Seduction, more than the flirt, characterizes
this stage of the affective process. In it, there is yet insecurity and
fear of rejection fighting with the interest and curiosity to affectivity
begin a new relationship.

THREE OF
HEARTSpassion

Question
- How many times have you fallen in love? Are you still able to do so?

This card
represents a state of complete affective and emotional empathy, a passion
where the person gets enchanted by her/his image reflected in the other.It indicates,
therefore, a promising romance, and affective relationship that will bring
results but, above all, a relationship of projection and transference,
where the other isnít recognized.

FOUR OF
HEARTSthe other's
shadow

Question
- What has been your biggest deception with love?The shadowy
side of the partner, that in the previous stage wasnít observed, is presented
here in the form of doubt an emotional discontentment. We have, in this
card all disillusion of a counter-transference, where voices and exterior
voices of the central relationship forces the lover to be conscious of
the other's true personality. For Waite, this card means pleasure; and
for Crowley, luxury.

FIVE OF
HEARTSrelationship
crisis

Question
- What facts would justify the end of your present relationship? What are
the reasons of your last disagreements?

The loss
of something that is loved is symbolized in the Golden Dawn Tarot by the
fact that both cups are empty; Crowley illustrates it with an inverted
pentagram, symbol of the devil and evil, while Waite sees it as a loss
of pleasure. Because of all this, this card represents a period of crisis
within a relationship, a brief breaking up where remorse related to past
appear. In Liz Greene and Juliet Sharman-Burke's mythological tarot, the
central cause of this crisis is the fact that the psyche (anima) has tried
to truly know Eros (animus) and to do so betrayed his trust.

SIX
OF HEARTSmeditating
the pain of loss

Question
- Give an example about something that you regret having done. If you could
go back in time, what happenings would you like to modify in your life?In this
card we see represented not only the feeling of loss or nostalgia, but
also the affective maturing resulting from a meditation about pain and
loss, of a growing through yearning. In the mythological tarot, it is the
absence of Eros (animus, sexuality) that takes the psychic (the soul) to
the conscience of his/her love.

SEVEN OF
HEARTSaffective
humility

Question
- What are the most restrictive aspects of your relationships? What concessions
and demands did you consider positive and resulted in changing your personality?

The restrictive
action of Geburah in the affective field is represented by the idea of
"affective humility", where we must accept the limitations imposed by the
relationship, submitting to its demands in order for it to continue.

EIGHT OF
HEARTSrenounce

Question
- Would you sacrifice your life, your profession and all your patrimony
for a perfect love?

This is
the most painful point of a relationship, the moment to loose hope and
give oneself up to destiny. There is here the idea that we should give
up something or somebody and face death for love, of preferring the end
of a situation in name of one's own feeling. Waite sees in this card the
"renounce to success or decline of interest for everything", Crowley calls
it "indolence" while the mythological tarot disillusioned in relation to
the other, but not in the relation to its own love.

NINE OF
HEARTSreconciliation

Question
- If the Genie of the lamp offered you three wishes, what would they be?

Waite sees
in this card, the "realization of wishes" and "complete success".
There is in it, a structural reintegration between animus and anima, represented
in the mythological tarot by the meeting of the psychic and Eros, before
the goddess Aphrodite. The soul reencounters sexuality under the sign of
true love.

TEN OF
HEARTSmarriage

Question
- What do you consider fundamental for a marriage to last forever ?

As opposed
to the Ten of Spades, the Ten of Hearts is considered the best card of
the tarot. It symbolizes alchemic marriage, the definite union between
sex and the heart. As this idea also corresponds to the spiritual unity,
we can say that the Ten of Hearts is equivalent to the Ace of Clubs in
another level.